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A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That's just like heaven to me. I'm a simple man.
~ Ron White
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
~ Fiona Apple
Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself as a cook.
~ David Chang
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.
~ Jacques Pepin
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
~ Tom Colicchio
I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I went straight from college into restaurants, so, from the beginning, my idea of what a kitchen should be was the highfalutin' restaurant type - and what I had at home never measured up to that.
~ Samin Nosrat
Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen. I did it for a year when I was in college. I put on 10 kgs and then it hit me that I couldn't do that anymore.
~ Saqib Saleem
When you go out for a good meal, chances are that there will be a deep fat fryer in the kitchen. Every Michelin star restaurant will have one.
~ Gregg Wallace
My first restaurant job was Knight of the Round Grill.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
~ Ring Lardner
I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.
~ Charlie Trotter
I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
~ Karen Chance
One more piece of advice: Never eat at any place ending in the words corral or barn. The food at those establishments is all beige.
~ Karen Harrington
A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.
~ Karen Marie Moning
At the Hoho's Family Restaurant, Beverly treats herself to peanut butter pancakes and world news.
~ Karen Russell
The month before I had found a cockroach in a bowl of onion soup and, when I complained, the waiter dutifully removed it and returned with another bowl from the same pot. Sheepishly, I explained that I no longer had an appetite for onion soup. A few days later, when I told the hotel manager how disappointed I was to find that onion soup was no longer on the menu, he said, 'Oh, we ran out of cockroaches.
~ Karl Maier
The Kopper Kettle had a New Englander's fish and chips special that couldn't be beat. The clam chowder was thick, creamy, and stuck to his ribs. The blueberry pie was homemade.
~ Kate Angell
Maupassant used to eat at the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower because it was the only place in Paris where he did not risk seeing the Eiffel Tower.
~ Brian Kiteley
At dinner the waiter wore white gloves and served a lump of burnt lamb that bounced on the plate. Spread over the restaurant wall was an immense canvas of gauchos herding cattle into an orange sunset. An old-fashioned blonde gave up on the lamb and sat painting her nails. An Indian came in drunk and drank through three jugs of wine. His eyes were glittering slits in the red leather shield of his face. The jugs were of green plastic in the shape of penguins.
~ Bruce Chatwin
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
~ Bryan Miller
He pulled out a chair and while they sat down he beckoned to a waiter and despite Mathis's expostulations insisted on ordering the drinks – a 'fine à l'eau' for Mathis and a 'bacardi' for the girl.
~ Ian Fleming
If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don't compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he'll be thrilled, because he took you there.
~ Ilona Andrews
Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers.
~ Nolan Bushnell